I stopped using an RSS feed reader for a while because at some point my inbox got a bit out of hand by having too many unread items piled up. I slowly stopped looking at them before abandoning the …

A short, picture-heavy summary of my two weeks trip to Hong Kong earlier this summer. To set the mood there's some recommended songs to play if you are interested. They are to be found at the end of …

Someone who just bought his first Mac asked me which essential (GUI) apps I currently use that I could recommend to him. As this will probably happen again I'll just keep this list here so I can …

As someone who hates Google Hangouts with a passion it took me surprisingly long to look into a way to use it via an IRC bridge to get rid of the annoying Chrome app. Today I finally had some spare …

I recently moved from using a wildcard certificate to using a bunch of certificates from Let's Encrypt. I was a bit hesitant in the beginning because it seemed like a lot of work and hassle to deal …

Storing backups in Google Drive with duplicity was broken for a long time now. Luckily someone wrote a new backend that is now able to make use of the new OAuth API requirement enforced by Google. To …

Quick guide based on @CthulhuSec's tutorial for setting up a Tor hidden service. If you don't know what a hidden service is read this high-level description before continuing. Install Tor Install the …

Just like every year the time between Christmas and New Years is best spent at the Chaos Communication Congress happening at the CCH in Hamburg. Following is a list of all the talks I went to see. …

This shell script will send you a push notification if there are new Gentoo updates available. It's based on ftf's Ruby script for Prowl. {{< gist dewey 902a0da58f85feca974a >}} Application …

If you don't like ending up like the plane in the header image (Jeff Sheldon, Unsplash) you should probably make sure you do have a good backup and restore strategy. The goal of this short guide is …